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The former drummer for one-time Burlington band Named By Strangers, Ian Lamphere, died a year ago in an avalanche in Colorado. That band's bass player, Peter Bixby, now plays with The Aerolites, who will perform at 9 p.m.

Jazz legend Chick Corea, whose most recent album, 'The Vigil,' came out in August, brings his inventive piano work to Rutland for a concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Paramount Theatre. $39.75-$49.75. 775-0903, www.paramountvt.org.

Maybe you've heard of this band from Burlington called Phish that makes improvisational rock music and plays for thousands and thousands of fans across the country? The four guys in the band do solo shows every now and then, too, sometimes not all that fa

For a time in the mid-1980s, Molly Ringwald was one of the most famous actresses in America, but as a little girl she expected to be a singer. Ringwald is finally scratching that jazz-singer itch. She released an album last spring and swings by the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center in Stowe for a concert Saturday night.

The bluegrass group Steep Canyon Rangers is touring in support of its recent album, 'Tell the Ones I Love,' and that tour stops in South Burlington at 8 p.m. Thursday for a show in the Higher Ground Ballroom.

The guitarist born as Kevin Moore is slated to appear Sunday at the Flynn Center. Moore has been billed as a solo acoustic show, but he said he'll play as part of an acoustic trio. Tom Shinness will handle cello, guitar and mandolin and Casey Wasner will join on drums, keyboards and bass.

With Dabroski as the director, Burlington College adding a bachelor of fine arts in music program to its curriculum. Along with the department of music, the school plans to bring concerts to the field that sprawls behind the college along Lake Champlain and could hold 10,000 to 15,000 concert-goers.

Burlington College President Christine Plunkett responded Friday to questions sent to her by the Burlington Free Press regarding the school's expanded musical offerings. She was writing by email from Cuba, where Burlington College is creating several

Like his earlier band viperHouse, Michael Chorney wants his Americana-with-a-twist group Hollar General to be hard to sum up in two or three musical adjectives. He brings that project to Burlington for a show Friday at FlynnSpace.

When bass player Stanley Clarke talks about the two teenagers in his band that he'll bring to this week's show in Vermont, he uses the word just about every jazz musician uses to describe what they all have in common: language.

The Flynn Center and the University of Vermont Lane Series combine a couple of times a year to present shows that typically appeal to both of their audiences. One such concert happens at the Flynn at 8 p.m.

The string ensemble Kronos Quartet is known for innovation, and also for telling musical stories about difficult topics. In fact, the group formed four decades ago after founder David Harrington heard the Vietnam War-inspired George Crumb composition

The members of the Vermont jazz-fusion group Eight 02 were feeling pretty good about reaction to their recent CD 'Drive.' The five-song mini-album fared well on jazz radio-play charts around the country and gave the four musicians the confidence to approach one of the band's heroes, renowned California-based musician Jeff Lorber.

If you didn't know Beth Orton had married a Vermonter, you could guess it from the title of the British singer's latest album: 'Sugaring Season.' Orton married Brattleboro-born folk musician Sam Amidon a couple of years ago and had a child with him. She and Amidon visit his family in southern Vermont regularly.

The Burlington venue Signal Kitchen has been shut down for a few months for renovations, but that changes when the space off Main Street returns with a show at 8:30 p.m. Friday featuring Caroline Rose, Plato Ears and Safar!.

Instead of speed dating it's speed band-making: Girls Rock Vermont presents Rock Lotto III, which Saturday morning will pair musicians who've never played together before and give them until Saturday evening to show what they've come up with.

The classic fairy tale 'The Sleeping Beauty' is about to spring to life in Stowe as a ballet. The Rudolf Nureyev State Ballet Theatre of Russia dances its way into the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. Saturday. $65-$75.

The name of the concert 'Local Legends: An Evening of Acoustic Music' is not just hyperbole, not when the headliners are Jazz Mandolin Project founder Jamie Masefield playing with longtime collaborators Doug Perkins and Tyler Bolles, joined by Phish drumm

The Canadian city within a two-hour drive of Burlington is busy, busy, busy between now and that seemingly-far-off first day of spring. Here are seven options that could just get you out of your warm house.

Ronald Braunstein's career as a musical conductor got off to a brilliant start, but bipolar disorder slowed what might have been an explosive career. He and his wife formed the Me2/orchestra — as in 'me, too,' the shared struggles of its musicians. The group is billed as 'the world's only classical music organization for individuals with mental illness and the people who support them.'

She was big on the NBC show 'The Voice' last year, and Nicole Nelson has been drawing increasingly larger crowds in her hometown of Burlington ever since. Her soulful group Dwight & Nicole shares a bill with the Ryan Montbleau Band at 8:30 p.m.

They've been on hiatus for the past couple of years, but the central Vermont world-jazz aggregation 35th Parallel is back for a show at 8 p.m. Saturday. They'll perform in the Haybarn Theatre at Goddard College in Plainfield.

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